Help with Shared Folders VB 3.0.6

[DaveLevy]

I am using Ubuntu 8 as a guest, Mac OSx 10.5 as a host and trying to implement shared folders using VB 3.0.6.

I create the host folder using Finder
I assign the folder using the GUI
I start the VM , as the non root user, I

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sudo mkdir /host
sudo mount -t vboxsf hostfs /host
touch /host/usr.junk
touch: cannot touch  '/host/usr.junk': Permission denied


/host is 755 root:root after the mount, I have tried setting the mount point to 777 before the mount, explicitly setting the -o rw in the mount statement, tried these parameters in the /etc/fstab and setting the host file system to 777.

Have I forgotten something stupid in the Linux command? Or is this a problem? I have shared folders working on U8 on another computer. I have read the manual

[Sasquatch]

See my signature for howto's. There is the solution to your problem.

Moving it to Linux Guests, you're not running that as Host.

[DaveLevy]

Thanks, your sig is getting longer, wasn't there last time I looked.

Is there an option string that mounts a shared folder with permissions 777? The man mount page doesn't yet have a vboxsf options section.

Sorry for wrong group thing. Thanks for fixing it.

[Sasquatch]

Did you actually check the file bit set after my mount command for user privileges? You don't always need 777, 666 is enough already, sometimes even 600 (or just 755 like default in /usr/bin).